Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that
of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals
performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
Examples of altruism abound, both among humans and among other mammals.
Unselfish acts among humans range from the sharing of food with strangers
to the donation of body organs to family members, and even to strangers. Such
acts are altruistic in that they benefit another, yet provide little reward to the one
performing the act.
In fact, many species of animals appear willing to sacrifice food, or even their
life, to assist other members of their group. The meerkat, which is a mammal that
dwells in burrows in grassland areas of Africa, is often cited as an example. In
groups of meerkats, an individual acts as a sentinel, standing guard and looking out
for predators while the others hunt for food or eat food they have obtained. If the
sentinel meerkat sees a predator such as a hawk approaching the group, it gives an
alarm cry alerting the other meerkats to run and seek shelter. By standing guard,
the sentinel meerkat gains nothing-it goes without food while the others eat, and
it places itself in grave danger. After it issues an alarm, it has to flee alone, which
might make it more at risk to a predator, since animals in groups are often able
to work together to fend off a predator. So the altruistic sentinel behavior helps
ensure the survival of other members of the meerkat's group.
The passage discusses the term altruism. The text also describes an example of altruistic behavior. In contrast, the teacher does not agree with altruism and creates questions on each example provided in the passage.
Firstly, as the passage provides an example of organ donation to family members in which they benefit others and still receive small rewards this is an act of altruism. On other hand, the lecturer claims that these people receive appreciation from many people which is indeed very much valuable more those people.
Secondly, the reading provided an example of altruism in meerkat animal in which it asserts that guard from meerkat group sacrifices their food while protecting other animals in their group. On contrary, the professor counters that guard is already full of tummy and not sacrificing any food for the group.
Moreover, the sentinel sees a predator and makes an alert for other meerkats in the group and sacrifices his life which is proved wrong by the lecturer she claims that after just creating alarm for the rest of the meerkats', the sentinel is the first who escape first.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 930.0 1373.03311258 68% => OK
No of words: 184.0 270.72406181 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05434782609 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40241981822 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 145.348785872 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608695652174 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 277.2 419.366225166 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.2765516118 49.2860985944 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.25 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.375 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308475783701 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124544327356 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0690223701474 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170369179628 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622827835456 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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